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Welcome Banner Contest Rules & Support

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  • Member
    September 10, 2014

    Hello Ladies and Gentlemen!

     

    As you know, there is a competition to decide the next Welcome banner for the site. This thread is to help with questions, queries and of course, the Rules for the Competition. 

    Lets get straight into it!

    1)  The banner must state somewhere on it, ‘Welcome’ or something similar e.g ‘Welcome to the Skyrim Blog'. 

    2) The banner can be a drawing, screenshot or even a collage.

    3)  The entry must be produced by you, and not something grabbed from the internet. We want it to be an original submission.

    4)   In the event there are more than 10 entries, myself and Curse Never Dying, and possibly some admins, will choose the top 10 to duke it out in the Polls, where the winner will be decided.

    5)   You are allowed to work in teams of no more than 3 if you wish to do so. It isn’t compulsory.

    6)   Must be submitted by Friday 19th of September. The Poll will run from Monday 22nd of the same month.

    7)   Format isn’t an issue as Ning can upload .jpg, .png, .bmp, etc. The most important thing is the size of the submission. Your entries must be 650 x 150 pixels, and no larger than 200k.

    8)   You can submit up to two entries if you’re up for it!

    Any queries you have, or if your confused over something, go ahead and post it in the comment section below. Myself and Curse will try and help as best we can! 

    **ATTENTION - A good question has been brought to my attention - whether you are allowed to submit a slideshow/gif of your work if you submitted multiple banners. Yes, you can. As long as you keep the size under 200K, then go for it!**

  • TED
    Member
    September 10, 2014

    Hey Alice, Billy Mays here with a question.  When you say "not something grabbed from the internet", does that also exclude photo-manipulation pieces from entering?

  • September 10, 2014

    Been thinking about remaking the blog's theme again. I'll do it when you guys submit the banner, will follow the same theme you guys chose, hope to see some great submissions

  • Member
    September 10, 2014

    If the photo is so manipulated that it doesn't look similar to the original photo, then that's fine. Its great if the banner is something original and has your own twist on it.

    I'm excited to see what you come up with! 

  • Member
    September 10, 2014

    Okay iv a question:

    Welcome banner what exactly is that? The banner at the top of the page where it says "The Skyrim Blog" or a banner for the welcome page (the one for newcomers)?

  • TED
    Member
    September 10, 2014

    Yep, the banner at the top of the page!  

  • Member
    September 10, 2014

    Great, thanks!

  • Member
    September 10, 2014
    I don't know if this is the right place to ask this, but will be there a contest for the blog background? i'd love to take in part in that as well if there's gonna be one in the future.
  • Leader
    September 10, 2014

    No that's not right at all Billy 

    By welcome banner, we mean..ummm... the banner that says 'Welcome' - NOT the one that says 'The Skyrim Blog', the one beneath that with the creep guy walking along with a lantern

  • TED
    Member
    September 10, 2014

    That's what I had meant.  Apparently, I misread the part where he mentioned "The Skyrim Blog."